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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Harrison

Will Smith personally paid extras on Emancipation set after seeing them play dead bodies in extreme heat

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Will Smith paid extras on the set of his new film Emancipation out of his own pocket, according to the director Antoine Fuqua.

The Apple TV+ movie stars Smith as an enslaved man who escapes from a plantation in Louisiana, in the 1860s, and joins the Union Army during the Civil War.

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